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Weekly Programming
- This Sunday - Ministry Fair
- Children and Youth Ministry
Community Events
- Kicking Off Weekly Programming
- Book Club Update
- Wonder Women Happy Hour
- Women of the Woods
- Faithful Innovation 2.0
Outreach
- ICA Update
- Racial Justice and Healing Summit
- Loaves and Fishes
- City of Minnetonka Climate Action
Announcements and Reports
- July Financial Snapshot
- Bible Study Resumes
- Calling All Bridge Players
- Calling All Mah Jongg Players
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Have an announcement you would like to share in this weekly email?
Send it to office@stdavidsparish.org before 9:00am on Tuesday to be featured.
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Holy Eucharist at 8:00 and 9:30
Calling all 3rd Graders!
This Sunday we are presenting and gifting Bibles during the 9:30 service for any children and youth 3rd grade and up (if they did not receive one last year.) Please email Anna abrock@stdavidsparish.org if your child is in 3rd grade, or does not have a Bible. It is a gift that we are blessed to be able to give away!
Ministry Fair this Sunday
Please join us in the undercroft this Sunday after the 9:30 service for our Annual Ministry Fair! We will highlight many of the amazing ministries we have here at St. David's and provide information on how you can get involved. Treats and coffee will be provided. If you would like an electronic copy of this year's ministry guide, click here
Click Here to view Sunday's Bulletin.
We continue to Facebook Livestream the Sunday 9:30 service and upload to YouTube.
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Children and Youth Ministry | |
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What a great time we had at kickoff Sunday! Thanks for sharing your time with us.
We’ve created new registration forms for children, youth, and their families. They were available on Sunday, and will be available again this Sunday. Even if you’ve been engaged in programming for a long time, or if you haven’t really been interested in the typical programming at all, please take a form and fill it out. It helps us to know your child and how to best minister to them.
Children’s Ministry
There is a slight schedule change. This Sunday we will have Children’s Time, and Sunday, the 24th, we will have Godly Play. We will still have Youth Choir on the 24th during forum time.
Youth Ministry
We will have Youth Group on Wednesday, September 20th from 6:45-8:30pm. If weather permits, we will have a bonfire, so please dress warmly, and bring a chair.
Ecumenical Youth Group Event
Saturday, September 23 for 6th-12 graders
Please join our Ecumenical Youth Ministries Fellowship (EYMF) friends (from EUMC, Mount Calvary, Trinity Episcopal & St. David's Episcopal) for a 5k paved path hike at Rice Marsh Park in Chanhassen on Saturday, September 23rd. We will meet at EUMC (Excelsior United Methodist Church) at 10:00am and make our lunches together then carpool to the park. We will return to EUMC by 2:00pm. Please bring a backpack, water bottle and a beach towel to sit on. Together we'll be eating lunch, singing songs, group prayer and playing games. Hope to see you there!
EUMC’s address is 881 3rd Ave, Excelsior, MN
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Kicking Off Weekly Programming | |
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St David’s Book Club News
by Cathy Schwichtenberg
The St. David’s Book Club will be discussing Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus on Tuesday, October 3 from 6:30 pm – 7:55 pm.
Meeting Link: October Book Club
"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the 1960s and despite the fact that she is a scientist, her peers are very unscientific when it comes to equality. The only good thing to happen to her on the road to professional fulfillment is a run-in with her super-star colleague Calvin Evans (well, she stole his beakers.) The only man who ever treated her-and her ideas-as equal, Calvin is already a legend and Nobel nominee. He's also awkward, kind and tenacious. Theirs is true chemistry. But as events are never as predictable as chemical reactions, three years later Elizabeth Zott is an unwed, single mother (did we mention it's the early 60s??) and the star of America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth's singular approach to cooking ('take one pint of H2O and add a pinch of sodium chloride') and independent example are proving revolutionary. Because Elizabeth isn't just teaching women how to cook, she's teaching them how to change the status quo. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist"-- Provided by publisher. ~hclib.org
We have an interesting line-up of selections this year and invite all St. David’s parishioners to participate. We usually meet via Zoom on the first Tuesday of every other month from 6:30 – 7:55. Here is this year’s schedule – please join us!
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Wonder Women Happy Hour
Thursday, September 28th
5 to 7 pm
Please join us for drinks, appetizers and a casual evening of fun socializing. Plan to bring an appetizer or snack to share and if you have a favorite drink, bring that too. Some beer/wine/non-alcoholic beverage options will also be provided.
Can also promise a fire in the fire pit with s'more fixings, and a Jacuzzi hot tub....so pack your suit if you wish! If you happen to have a fold-up chair already in your car, bring it to the backyard as I do not have a ton of chairs (can provide 9 at my last count).
Hope you can make it:
Diane Curley's home
8016 Ridgeway Road
Golden Valley, MN 55426
763-232-9412
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Who: Women of St. David’s
What: Join us for a fall color hike!
Where: Lake Maria State Park
11411 Clementa Avenue Northwest
Monticello, MN 55362
When: Saturday, September 23rd
9:45am (hike at 10:00)
Lunch provided (chili & cornbread)
Details: There are longer and shorter hiking options for hikers of various abilities (and just hanging out by the fire and enjoying lunch with the group is highly welcome!)
RSVP: by 9.20.23 so we can plan for food to:
Ann Carda acarda21@gmail.com or
Karin Lindquist Lindquist.karin@hotmail.com
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On Saturday, September 23, 2023 anyone interested is invited to join the Rev. Blair Pogue and lay leader Judy Johnson in the ECMN Gathering Space located at 1101 West Broadway Avenue from 10 am to 2 pm to learn more about the Faithful Innovation process and especially what congregations have been learning these past fourteen months. Those who come will also learn a few new spiritual practices they can take back to their congregation, and will hear from the congregations who have continued to listen to God and other church members, to wonder what God might be up to in the church's neighborhood and their own neighborhoods, and to engage in small, low cost experiments to learn more about what the Holy Spirit is up to in the lives of their neighbors. Please let Blair Pogue know if you plan to come by Wednesday, September 20th at blair.p@episcopalmn.org, and if you have any dietary restrictions. | |
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Chili Cook-off this Saturday
It’s starting to feel like fall and we start thinking of foods we enjoy during the cooler months - such as chili. So it’s perfect timing that this Saturday, September 16th is the annual community chili cook-off.
It will be taking place at Faith Church-Minnetonka (12007 Excelsior Boulevard) from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. $10 gives you the opportunity to taste all five teams’ chili and cast a ballot for your favorite. Who makes the best chili in town? The competing teams from Minnetonka Fire, Minnetonka Police, Hopkins Fire, Hopkins Police and Hopkins-Minnetonka Recreation will be going head-to-head to benefit ICA Food Shelf.
Donations of non-perishable food, cash or other ICA-needed items are also being collected to support ICA.
Do stop by Faith Church this Saturday, enjoy some chili and cast your ballot.
And from a neighbor using ICA’s services: “ICA helped me when I needed it the most and I am so grateful.”
The Great Taste planned for October 12th
This year’s Great Taste will be a celebration of ICA’s 52nd anniversary. This fun event will be held at Oak Ridge Country Club in Hopkins. Early bird tickets must be purchased by September 13th. For more information or to purchase tickets, go to www..icafoodshelf.org/taste.
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Racial Justice and Healing Summit | |
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The ECMN Racial Justice and Healing Commission invites you to a series of events open to any member of the Episcopal community in Minnesota this September. We know that all God's people have been affected and shaped by racism, and are all in need of healing—wherever you live, however you grew up, whatever your racial identity.
Please join us for one or all of the following events this fall at the ECCN Racial Justice and Healing Summit:
Thursday, September 28, 7:00 pm | St. John the Evangelist in St. Paul
Friday, September 29, 5:30 pm–Saturday, September 30, 5:30 pm |
St. John the Evangelist
Register HERE.
- Racial Justice Holy Eucharist, Dr. Catherine Meeks, preacher
Sunday, October 1, 10:00 am | St. John the Evangelist
Free. No registration necessary.
Learn more here.
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Four Volunteers are needed for each date. Two for cooking with the L&F coordinator from 3:00-5:00 and two to package and serve from 4:30 to 6:30.
Upcoming dates
- September 25
- October 10
- October 23
- October 31
Please contact Sue or Basil Owen to sign up. Sue’s cell is 612-716-1945. Basil’s cell is 612-716-0683 or email at bowen3@fastmail.com
See the May 25th weekly news for full update.
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City of Minnetonka Climate Action | |
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This year, the City of Minnetonka is working to create a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP). This plan will provide the city with strategies to reduce our community’s impacts on the environment and adapt to our changing climate. However, to make this plan, we need the community’s input! Specifically, the city is looking for input from all community members (anyone who lives, works or visits Minnetonka). Community members can provide their input by:
Feel free to contact Drew Ingvalson at dingvalson@minnetonkamn.gov or 952-939-8293 if you have any questions.
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Announcements and Reports | |
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Bible Study started again last Tuesday but everyone is invited to join at any time. We meet at 11:00 each Tuesday morning on Zoom. We're currently studying the Book of John with the Rev. Basil Owen leading the way.
See Zoom link under 'Regular Offerings'
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Calling All Bridge Players | |
The St. David’s Bridge Group will be starting on Friday, September 15 at 6:30 PM in the Conference Room across from the Library. If you are interested in playing bridge, please email Susan Taylor at ss2taylor@comcast.net to be added to the list of bridge players. We play a friendly game of party bridge on the third Friday of each month, September through May except December. You sign up on a month-by-month basis so there is no obligation to find substitutes if you can’t play one month. | |
Calling All Mah Jong Players | |
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The St. David’s Mah Jongg group will be starting up soon. We play American MahJongg two afternoons a month. The dates and times are yet to be determined. If you are interested in joining the group, please email Susan Taylor at ss2taylor@comcast.net.
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What else is going on at St. David's? | |
Want to view the full calendar for the week? Click here to view the St. David's website complete with a calendar to keep you updated on events and offerings! Scroll all the way to the bottom to view it. | |
Pastoral Care Line: 952-767-0891 | |
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